William Van Mildert

(1765-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Van Mildert, William, 1765-1836 NRA: Mildert William Van (1765-1836) Bishop of Durham DNB: Mildert, William Van (1765–1836), bishop of Durham LBT ID: WiMilde1836 VIAF ID: 13114259 LOC ID: n88648996	B/BAP: 1765-11-06 DIED: 1836-02-21
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Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Queen's College, Oxford, he was a high churchman, editor of the British Critic, bishop of Llandaff (1819), dean of St. Paul's (1820), bishop of Durham (1826), and a founder of Durham University.
REFERENCES TO William Van Mildert: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 October 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1827 Found 2: ¶ 33 ¶ 34 Charles Robert Cockerell to Lady Marion Bell, 24 October 1851 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 6 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter IX Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1827